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  • M.H. Carnegie, Vivant Ventures announce $80 million startup fund

    A new investment fund will make $80 million available for Australian startups specialising in digital technology.

  • Oracle to ship 40 security fixes for Java SE

    Oracle is set to release a patch set for Java SE that targets 40 security vulnerabilities.

  • Sony opens up SmartWatch to developers

    Sony's Open SmartWatch Project will make it possible for developers to create and install alternative software on the Sony SmartWatch.

  • Startup sources talent from coding comp

    Finding people who are the right fit for a startup environment can be tricky. Australian e-commerce startup Bigcommerce is seeking people "who really love to code", according to Soren Harner.

  • Oracle releases Java EE 7 with eye on HTML5 development

    Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application development to the framework.

  • Organizations push for Congress to curtail NSA spying

    Privacy advocates are pushing the U.S. Congress to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to collect massive amounts of data from U.S. residents, as alleged in recent news reports.

  • Expert: Oracle's Fusion Applications still maturing, but offer real value

    Oracle still has some kinks to work out in its next-generation Fusion Applications and implementing them on-premises remains a daunting task, but customers on older product lines have good things to look forward to if and when they upgrade, according to one veteran of many early Fusion projects.

  • The birth of MMOs: World of Warcraft's debt to MUD

    No-one would deny that 2004 launch of World of Warcraft changed the face of the games industry. The subscriber base of Blizzard's massively multiplayer online game (MMO) may rise and fall as the company releases expansions and tweaks its subscription model (the introduction of the free 'Starter Edition' for example), but millions of players have spent many millions of hours in Azeroth.

  • Cloud computing is about to get personal

    While businesses have been deploying cloud technology for some time, it's only recently that personal cloud services have emerged. The advent of the personal cloud means content, applications and computing power can move off the device. So, will we still need sophisticated tablets, PCs and smartphones if the power resides elsewhere?

  • Beginner's guide to R: Introduction

    R is hot. Whether measured by more than 4,400 add-on packages, the 18,000+ members of LinkedIn's R group or the close to 80 R Meetup groups currently in existence, there can be little doubt that interest in the R statistics language, especially for data analysis, is soaring.

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